Repulsion Between Common Media

[kisalipa]

Identification of the contemporary human incarnation and selfless service to Him is the total essence of the entire spiritual knowledge. The starting point is the direct atheist or the scientist (an indirect atheist) misled by ambition and is a follower of Advaita. Whenever the Veda uses the word Atman in the context of God, it means only the particular individual soul, which is charged by God and is called as human incarnation. When it is said in the Veda that space was generated by the soul, the word soul means the human being charged by God like Krishna, who came as the human incarnation. Krishna says that He is the source of the entire creation and the first item of this creation is space, which is the first of the five fundamental elements.

The Gita clearly says that God comes in the form of a human being (Manushiim...). But the serious objection to the human incarnation is that if there were only one human incarnation like Krishna, only one human generation would be blessed [to be in contact with Him] and therefore God must be partial. To avoid this blame, Krishna said that He would come again and again (Yadayadahi...). But the same human body of Krishna is not seen again and again. This means that God is beyond the human body and hence God is beyond this entire creation. God takes a fresh human body every time, just like the soul. The human body is only a shirt, which can be changed often (Vasamsi... Gita). Unfortunately, human beings, due
to the repulsion between common items, neglect God in the human body. Human beings do not recognize God existing in a particular human body and treat that particular human body as only an ordinary human being (Parambhavamajananto...—Gita).

As long as the human incarnation is alive, no human being recognizes Him; but people recognize Him after His exit. Krishna said that a human being recognizing Him as God is very rare (Kashchitmam..., Samahatma Sudurlabhah...—Gita). But, today most of us recognize Krishna as God. In that case how did Krishna say this? Is the Gita not universal and applicable to all times? A simple analysis of this point shows that Krishna said this in view of the negligence shown to Him by the human beings living during His lifetime. Hence this statement means that many do not recognize the living human incarnation and several recognize Him only after His exit. This statement also clearly proves that Krishna was speaking about the
human incarnation (Himself) existing in His time alone (contemporary human incarnation) and this does not refer to a single human incarnation generalized for all the times [such as the physical body of Jesus or Krishna]. If Krishna were the single human incarnation generalized to all times, this statement becomes wrong because later on several human beings worshiped Krishna. The recognition of Krishna as God was and is present during several human generations after Him (a long span of time) and only during a short span of time (Krishna’s life time) was Krishna not recognized as God by most people, as per this statement. [Thus, the statement in the Gita would be true only for a very short period of time and false the rest of the time.] This means that there is no single human incarnation generalized to all times.

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